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big changes coming to Walnut Hills
Its no secret I've been bullish on Walnut Hills for a couple years now. Small incremental changes in the neighborhood are becoming a torrent. A few popup events, a successful food truck festival has lead the way and new restaurants and a coffee shop are opening. People are beginning to follow. Work has been underway for almost a year on Trevarren Flats and now just across the street the Paramount Building has joined the mix.
The Walnut Hills Redevelopment Foundation has recently acquired ownership of the Paramount Building at the corner of McMillan and Gilbert Ave. As you can see there is much work to be done, there is rain water pouring down through the building.
WHRF hopes to rent the 10,000sqft top floor of the paramount to one business and hope the first floor fills out with retail.
Peebles Corner is seemingly on its way back as the anchor for Walnut Hills.
Only steps away the community is busy activating Saint James pocket park and also the Five Alleys park on the other side of Gilbert Ave is under going a $200,000 transformation.
Five Alleys
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on the road to hell.....
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did you ever think you'd have it this good?
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Start Small Homes
Start Small Homes held a ground breaking to celebrate the start of OTR's first tiny homes. At 290sf plus a 160sf basement these homes will be smaller than any apartments under construction. Start Small is the brainchild of People’s Liberty Haile Fellow Bradley Cooper. Start Small has the potential to open up irregular lots in OTR or anywhere really to development. Mr. Cooper is chasing the trend of people owning fewer things and wanting smaller spaces with less maintenance and overhead. Its estimated utilities to run around $55 a month. Start Small is constructing two homes, one at market rate and one will be affordable housing with a price based on income.
Construction starts Nov. 3rd, if the Small Homes look like the renderings they're going to be an amazing addition to OTR.
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another historic day in Cincinnati
The last weld was completed Friday afternoon on the Cincinnati streetcar downtown. It was nice that some pomp and circumstance happened downtown considering the economic studies have stated that the majority of the streetcar's economic impact will occur there. The loop is now complete short some concrete and overhead wire stringing. All that is left is for the cars to be shipped and the federal mandated testing to occur. The Cincinnati streetcar is scheduled to begin operating in less than a year but I hope if everything falls into place it will happen faster than that.
Other notable points, the streetcar is on time and on budget. The city of Cincinnati has also posted budget surpluses two years in a row and streetcar operation are projected to take up 0.085% of the budget.
What is it that Derek Bauman, Director-Southwest Ohio All aboard Ohio always says? Density + Connectivity = Vibrancy!
Lets go
A couple pictures from Ms5chw4r7z since I couldn't get off work.
This sign always cracks me up, the streetcar doesn't have a choice over what lane it uses right?
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The Alley Meet at Fuel Coffee
Walking in and seeing this old Suzuki first thing already had me giddy. Its hard to remember a world when you buy a two-stroke motorcycle legally to ride on public streets. Not since Evel" Knievel died at least. And "suicide shifters? When is the last time you saw someone riding a bike with one of those? So glad I got up early and made a trip to Fuel Coffee. If you want to see cars and bikes you never see anywhere else its hard to beat Fuel Coffee on a Saturday morning.
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SPACED INVADERS: Area 005
Here in Cincinnati its possible to spend lots of money and have a good time.
Its also possible to spend no money and have a great time.
Exhibit A:
People over the fast couple weeks have been heroing up to fight blighted spaces and space invaders, and also mediocre nights out on the town. The last invasion occurred in Covington at the abandoned Bavarian Brewery.
Activating spaces and fighting aliens what could be more noble than that?
Just us, a photon gun, some random weeds and a few rats. And a good time was had by all.
Follow Fight the Blight on facebook and be in the know for the next invader popup.
Organizing events like this isn't easy, or cheap and is fraught with pitfalls. Giac came home on night to find his van broken into and a generator missing. if you can help, you can donate to his gofundme HERE.
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Issue 22, the mayor wants to spend all the money
Saturday morning the Cincinnati Democratic party held a meeting on whether to endorse Issue 22. Two of the speakers seemed to encapsulate why most people are concerned with this permanent property tax.
Tim Mara is an attorney who is active in many environmental organizations. he was very outspoken against the stadium tax in the mid 90s.
"Burnet Woods, (a place the mayor wants to develop with restaurants and beer gardens) is designated by the Audubon Society as an “Important Birding Area,” a rare honor for such an urban location.
The proposed Cincinnati Parks Levy is, in actually, a proposal which could devastate our park system. It is a scheme to open up our treasured parks to development for the profit of a few."
Local civil rights activist Marian Spencer "our living legend"
"Paying debt back for the projects proposed would take an excess of 25 years. Can't repeal a tax until the debt is paid."
I've heard from reliable sources that Marian Spencer said later in the day the mayor called her and berated her over this statement.
Which lead me to this epiphany, there has been speculation about what a future mayor will do with this money which is completely off the mark.
The current mayor plans to spend all the money right now!
Whats to stop him from spending 500 million in the next year? We'll be paying his cash give away off for the next 100 years.
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O Pie O, in one of the city's hotter neighborhoods
Chicken pot pie has always been one of those fall/winter comfort foods you look forward to once the heat of the summer has burned off. At least I do. of course when I was younger I ate those $1 Swansen pot pies because I didn't know any better then stopped when I realized they had like 60 grams of fat per serving.
Fast forward to today and my tastes have grown up and local Tom's Pot Pies are the best I've had. Please don't revel any nutrition info you have on them, ignorance is bliss.
Then last week I saw a tweet about chicken pot pie at O Pie O in East Walnut Hills, good gawd I have to try it. O Pie O is one of the newer restaurants in one of the cities hotter neighborhood's, the Woodburn/Madison Rd area of East Walnut Hills. I figured we'd grab a few pies then head to the Growler House across the street but I was pleasantly surprised that O Pie O has a liquor license and a good selection of beers and wines.
3 pot pies
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